Educating the women of Hainan
Subtitle: the career of Margaret Moninger in China, 1915-1942
By: Kathleen L. Lodwick.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Lexington, Ky
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Moninger, Mary Margaret, 1891-1950.; Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Hainan Mission -- History.; Women missionaries -- China -- Biography.; Women missionaries -- United States -- Biography.; Presbyterian Church -- Education -- History.; Women -- Education -- China -- History -- 20th century.
Description: For Margaret Moninger - a brilliant, fun-loving, and dedicated young woman from Iowa - a career as a missionary in China promised adventure and the chance for responsibility and authority denied most American women of her time. In 1915 she went as a Presbyterian missionary to Hainan Island, China's southernmost territory, where she remained until repatriated in 1942.

Kathleen Lodwick's biography, the first devoted to a single woman missionary, is based primarily on the long, newsy letters Moninger wrote her family every Sunday of her missionary years, and on those of a fellow missionary. It will be of interest to scholars in Asian Studies, religious studies, and anthropology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [244]-246) and index.